A 65 corner tank is too small for a tang?
Need help with fish!
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scumbag_gli
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Yes...very much so. If you even wanted to keep a tang at all, a bristle tooth tang would be your best bet. Even then, I still wouldn't PERSONALLY do it. I had a juvi Chevron in my 90 for a month, and that was even too small for him.
The tang is roughly 3 inches long at the moment. Didn't plan on keeping him long term. I know once he's full grown my tank won't be able to house him but even by than, I'll have a bigger and upgraded tank before he turns into an adult
ericarenee
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You are about at the limit for a tang to be OK . The yellow tank will be fine in there But no More tangs should be added . they will NO DOUBT FIGHT To the death of one of them in most cases...My Tangs Tolerate each other only because they know they cant really catch one another because its 7 foot tank with 300 lbs of rock work....
Now Back to the issue with the Fish... If you took it out of the bag and put them in a Water container. with the bag water and did not add PRIME or any other water it could be a ammonia issue..
The above all depends on where you got the fish. how long they were in the bags.. How the pet store preped the bags.. Also difference in salinity between the tanks ..... I only drop or slow acclimate distressed fish from being shipped.. and Do it 50/50 bag to tank water with prime and a super fast drip..... (MANY HERE WILL SAY I AM WRONG).. But there are too many unknowns about the water and slowly bringing the fish back my opinion is better then DUMPING IT FROM one situation to another...
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anyway. YOu are past that... If you know the water is good in the tank its at ... Other fish fine? Just watch the fish is all you can do...
Got the fish at my LFS, never have a problem with any of the livestock they carry.
They were in the bag roughly 10 mins max
Fish were prepared like any other fish you normally buy, bag halfway filled with enough water for the fish and air inside the bag
I haven't checked the different sanity between both the tanks they own and mine, but still did a slow drip process before they were ready to put inside the tank
They were fine for about a few hours and noticed they were coming up to the top of the tank for air roughly a few hours after everything was done and were put inside the tank
I let them sit in my corner tank, the one laying on the ground is starting to move around a lot more while the other other is still next to it as of this morning
I still haven't seen a clear answer to the question regarding flow/oxygenation in the 10g where they started showing signs of stress.
Symptoms would fit with low O2.
SO.... How much flow in the 10g tank? Is the surface of the tank still, or are there significant ripples? What is the temp in the 10g? Maybe there's enough to provide O2 sufficient for one fish, but not for three?
Symptoms would fit with low O2.
SO.... How much flow in the 10g tank? Is the surface of the tank still, or are there significant ripples? What is the temp in the 10g? Maybe there's enough to provide O2 sufficient for one fish, but not for three?
ericarenee
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I am sure its something with the 10 Gallon tank... Check the Ammonia Salinity and Temp in that tank.... 10 Minutes is not really enough time..
There is a thread on here started two days ago about how acclimation can kill your fish... Read it and everyone's comments... i agree with everyone except for fish from over night shipping... BUT This does not make me Right...
Glad you have them in a known good tank and they could be OK all you can do is give them time to recover.. Just be sure to get that other tank under control before you add anything else to it...
Good Luck
The water of the tank is not still, a good amount of ripples. Temp is 80
The salinity level was perfect.
Temp is perfect.
Did a 15% water last night and going to do another 10% today and recheck everything all over again.
They seem to be recovering in the 65 corner tank, but I'm not going to risk any harm putting them into the 10 gallon tank till I get it under control
How can I fix the 02 in the tank? Add another small circulation pump?
ericarenee
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Since you know the big tank is fine. I WOULD Do a near 100% water change in the 10G Tank with water from the big tank . Putting fresh ro/di water back into the big tank. Benefit both tanks
If its a water issue this will solve lit.....
Just make sure the surface water is Agitated ....
hotelbravo
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For the rest of your time on this website please stop saying "blank was perfect" we want the actual numbers not that in your opinion they were good. What's prefect to you or good to you might actually not be good or perfect. It will help us help you.
Thanks.
if i understand you correctly, you have 4 clowns in a 65? that isn't gonna work.
I have them in a little separate container to recover from the 10 gallon tank
Going to try that out today and see if it works
Perth_reefer
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Even an air stone would help with a 10G, unless you can get some surface agitation in there somehow.
Roughly how big of an air stone would be fine?
Perth_reefer
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I just bought a cheap $2 one for my 20G QT to do TTM, have a purple tang in there at the moment and just an air stone to keep the water oxygenated, works fine.
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